Word: rubbings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many Siamese call Phibun two-faced, suspect he is more interested in establishing an army dictatorship than in making democracy work. "Government leaders just like to talk about democracy," a Bangkok university student complained last week. "They spell it out with their hands, and rub it out with their feet." Most Siamese wish fondly that cowlicked, 21-year-old little King Phumiphon (pronounced Poomeepone) would return from his voluntary exile in Switzerland, where he spends his time writing songs. His 'Tis Sundown and Rainfall are enthusiastically sung by Siamese students everywhere and played frequently in Bangkok nightclubs. Sample...
...Gaol. Maybe, he thought, if books were cheap enough, more people would read them. Fifteen years later, when he became the publisher of a weekly Socialist newspaper in Girard, Haldeman-Julius decided to try the idea. He pulled out the battered old Ballad and a companion copy of the Rubáiyát, handed them to his perplexed linotype operator to set in type...
Heady Draught. In Miami, Fred H. Kautzmann charged that the James Drug Shop had mixed the labels on two prescriptions, causing him for the past year to rub stomach medicine on his scalp and drink his hair tonic...
...with a habit of telling tall tales, sees a murder. When he tells his sober, hardworking parents (Barbara Hale and Arthur Kennedy), they do not believe him; neither do the police. But the murderers (Paul Stewart and Ruth Roman) get wind of Tommy's knowledge and decide to rub...
Friends, the press launch offers everything. Fine seats, free Hershey bars from Bill Bingham, and a chance to rub elbows with the great infallibles of the sporting pages...